The top 5 things that happened in the AI race this year

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was often seen by the side of President Donald Trump.

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12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab

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OpenAI lost at least 11 scientists and executives in 2025, including more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer.

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Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

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Top AI researchers, such as Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun, are building world models, which they say have more potential than large language models.

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An OpenAI engineer outlines her one-week hiring sprint, from outreach on Monday to a signed offer on Friday

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An OpenAI engineer explains how OpenAI hired her in a week.

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Why one of the godfathers of AI says he lies to chatbots

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Bengio said AI's desire to please him rendered its responses useless.

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ChatGPT's year-end recap is here — and it tells you how many em-dashes you exchanged

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ChatGPT has its own recap à la Spotify Wrapped

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Sam Altman says he has '0%' excitement about being CEO of a public company ahead of a potential OpenAI IPO

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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI has gone 'code red' multiple times — and they'll do it again

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Sam Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company has gone "code red" multiple times — and expects it to keep happening as the AI race heats up.

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The circular chart OpenAI says explains its ever-growing need for more compute

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A chart outlining OpenAI's aggressive strategy to secure more compute.

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OpenAI hires former UK chancellor to lead its global Stargate project

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George Osborne is the latest British political heavyweight to join a US tech firm.

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